8 July 08 - Release from Freedom House - On July 2, Freedom House released the country reports from the latest edition of Freedom in the World, the annual survey of global political rights and civil liberties. According to the survey’s findings, the year 2007 was marked by a notable setback for (...) Read

3 July 08 - The Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE) would seem to have its work cut out for it in a world racked by brutal and enduring conflict. Interview with its director, Frances Stewart Read

26 June 08 - Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has launched a global alliance for climate justice at the first meeting of the Global Humanitarian Forum. Read

20 June 08 - ‘Doc’ Bernie Duff, 58, a former medic in the Vietnam War, recently led a 1,700 kilometre walk from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi to raise awareness of the problems still faced by those suffering from the effects of Agent (...) Read

19 June 08 - FIDH press release - The United Nations Human Rights Council today approved by consensus an Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). The momentous decision today by the Human Rights Council brings one step closer the possibility of an (...) Read

19 June 08 - Support for an academic boycott of Israeli universities exposed Ilan Pappe to death threats last year, forced him to resign as senior lecturer of political science at the University of Haifa, and leave the country. Read

19 June 08 - Press release from FIDH/OMCT - The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders which supports, monitors and protects human rights defenders throughout the year, is publishing its 2007 Annual Report today. The report focuses on the year-round fight for human rights and includes (...) Read

18 June 08 - The feeble response by the UN chief, Ban Ki-moon, and the blanket of silence from the international humanitarian community at large to serious allegations of sexual abuse of children by UN peacekeepers and others- has raised concerns in human rights (...) Read

17 June 08 - For the first time a UN expert at Human Rights Council , Richard Falk, has proposed investigating Palestinian attacks on Jewish civilians. The Arab group of member states pull a face, Israel watches skeptically. Read

16 June 08 - Nigerian Ambassador Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi, who has been nominated to suceed Doro Romulus Costea as head of the Human Rights Council, must also manage a festering crisis at WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) Read